September 4, 1967

On September 4, 1967, Father Groppi received this telegram with a note of support from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Image from "March on Milwaukee" by Margaret Rozga, Wisconsin Magazine of History, Volume 90, Number 4, Summer of 2007, p. 36 http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/wmh/id/49351

“Music, fountains.” Milwaukee Courier, September 9, 1967. Milwaukee Public Library Microfilm Collection, Microfilmed by the Wisconsin Historical Society.